the Gift

[Jenny]

THE HATCHECK GIRL --Hafiz

Why
Are there
So few in the court
Of a perfect
Saint?

Because
Every time you are near Him
You have to leave pieces
Of your
Ego

With
The hatcheck
Girl

Who won't give them
Back-

O
O
O
U
C
H
.

[Jenny]

THE VINTAGE MAN --Hafiz

The
Difference
Between a good artist
And a great one

Is:

The novice will lay down his tool
Or brush

Then pick up an invisible club
On the mind's table

And helplessly smash the easels and
Jade.

Whereas the vintage man
No longer hurts himself or anyone

And keeps on
Sculpting

Light.

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

"Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense.

Come back, my friend, the form of our love is not a created form.

There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul.
I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me."

-Rumi.

[Jenny]

WHY NOT BE POLITE -- Hafiz

Everyone is God
Speaking

Why not be polite
And
Listen to Him?

[Jenny]

Courteous to the Ant -- Hafiz

God
Blooms

From the shoulder
of the
Elephant

Who becomes
Courteous
To
The
Ant.

[Scot Free]

"A free life is still free for great souls. Verily, who ever possesses little is possessed that much less: Praise be a little poverty!"
-Thus spoke Zarathustra

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[Humanoid Gone Mad]

1.
I walk down the street.
There is deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
I am lost...I am hopeless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

2.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I dont see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I'm in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

3.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in... it's a habit.
My eyes are open
I know where I am
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

4.
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

5.
I walk down another street.

(Autobiography in five chapters)
-The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

"Religion is little more than a transaction in which troubled people †r@de
their souls for temporary and wholly illusionary psychological comfort- the old give-it-up-in-order-to-save-it routine. Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the untimate family jewel and that in turn for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken. "

- Tom Robbins, "Villa Incognito"

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

"It doesn't matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you're not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren't connected... you're hopping through life on one leg."


- Tom Robbins, "Villa Incognito"

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

- Bob Dylan.

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